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Extract from the Carrick-on-Suir Travel Guides:
Tucked in Tipperary's southeast corner, at the foot of the mountain slopes of neighbouring County Waterford,
CARRICK-ON-SUIR
may well be the first place you see in Tipperary, a slight country town raised a cut above the rest by what is perhaps Ireland's most beautiful Elizabethan mansion: similar examples abound in England but are a rarity here. Set at the very eastern end of the main street,
Ormond Castle
(guided tours mid-June to Sept daily 9.30am-6.30pm; 2/?2.54; Heritage Card) was built by Thomas, tenth Earl of Ormond ("Black Tom"), in anticipation of a visit from Queen Elizabeth I - and tributes to he...
read the whole Carrick-on-Suir Travel Guides...
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